If I had the luxury of having my own home office, I’d love for it to be chic, stylish, organized, and just a little bit girly. Something like this: {Danielle Moss via The Everygirl} But the reality is that our home office is a busy place that is used by the whole family and most of the time the desk is one big cluttered mess. Since I have to work around four people’s needs and wants when redesigning our home office, it’s not going to be the dream office that I’d create if I was designing it just for […]

Last week we made some major progress on the remodel of our home office. First of all, I finally chose a paint color! After narrowing it down to ten possible colors (the eight dark gray paint colors that I had been considering for a few weeks plus two more colors I found more recently through readers’ comments: Behr’s Fashion Gray and Restoration Hardware’s Charcoal), the winner was Martha Stewart’s Zinc. I wasn’t sure how I was going to decide because all ten are gorgeous colors but when I placed the paint chips next to the paint color in my foyer and my drapery […]